Media & Politician Propaganda, Dispossession of Sweden & Dispossession of Indigenous Europe

MEDIA & POLITICIAN PROPAGANDA DISPOSSESSION OF SWEDEN DISPOSSESSION OF INDIGENOUS EUROPE WAKE UP http://giphy.com WILL SWEDISH MEDIA INTERVIEW A BLEEDING GANG-RAPED SWEDISH WOMAN VICTIM OF SWEDISH POLITICIAN POLICY PROPAGANDA MIGRANT VICTIM ANGLE Barometern OT -- Anders Enstrom - Editor in chief & publisher Gota Media AB -- revenue:   1.232 billion SEK -- owner:     Foundation Survey - 50%     Tore G Wärenstams Foundation - 50% Swedish Police IN THE FIRING LINE of Sweden Invasion-Promoting Capitalist Agenda Serving SWEDISH MEDIA ______________________________________________ Interviewer:  Anders Blank newspaper:  Barometern OT ______________________________________________  Police called him: "Arab bastard" ______________________________________________ Independent Article (Below) Reader Comments - Extracts How Convenient 55 No Go Zones in Sweden Police Should Go On Strike Let Politicians Police the Streets Think Swedish media might have an agenda here? PROPAGANDA MIGRANT HERO ANGLE Barometern OT Anders Blank: Migrant hero prize [gets the insurance company prize] PROPAGANDA MIGRANT HERO ANGLE Barometern OT  Anders Blank: Rescued girl PROPAGANDA MIGRANT HERO ANGLE Barometern OT  Anders Blank: Became the hero of New Year's Eve PROPAGANDA UGANDA REFUGEE VISIT ANGLE Barometern OT Anders Blank: PROPAGANDA MIGRANT VICTIM ANGLE  Barometern OT Anders Blank recommends story: PROPAGANDA MIGRANT VICTIM ANGLE MIGRANT 'NAZI' VICTIM FEMINIST ICON ANGLE Dagens Nyheter owned by:  Bonnier AB FEMINIST ICON ANGLE Sports Waking up as football feminist icon published 2014-09-06 "The Nazis almost beat him to death. The cry "Fight Showan" was spread over the world. Now Showan Shattak back. He has six screws in the skull. The head ache. But he fights. For Malmo FF - against Nazism."   [source]  PROPAGANDA  Niklas Orrenius [RIGHT-CLICK.  OPEN IN NEW TAB.  MAGNIFY] CAPITALISM Global Markets  CARL BILDT 'democratic allies' 'democratic values' 'making the world safe for others'  PROPAGANDA  'DEMOCRACY', 'VALUES' & 'SAFETY' ANGLE PROPAGANDA MIGRANT VICTIM ANGLE Independent 28 April 2016 Swedish police officer tells man ‘go home you Arab b******’ in racial abuse caught on tape An investigation has reportedly been launched into the incident     Alexandra Sims, Lizzie Dearden     7 hours  ago Journalists from local newspaper Barometern interviewing Nobakht Ahad after the incident YouTube A Swedish police officer is being investigated after allegedly telling a man ejected from an asylum seekers’ centre to “go home you Arab b******”. Officers were called to the Hotell Amigo, which houses asylum seekers in Emmaboda, south-eastern Sweden, following reports of a fight at the establishment on Tuesday. The man, named Nobakht Ahad by local media, claims the officers called to the scene verbally and physically abused him, removing him from the hotel and transporting him to a forest several kilometres away. In an alleged recording of the incident one of the police officers can be heard shouting: “To hell with you, you f***ing lunatic. Go home, you f***ing Arab b******. Go home to your f***ing country.” Barometern, a Swedish language local newspaper, interviewed Mr Ahad in the forest following the altercation. He told the paper: “They were heavy handed, kicked me in the side. One took a hard object and hit me in the head. Blood gushed. “They called me things. I thought, this can’t be Swedish police, they cannot treat me that way.” Barometern’s report states Mr Ahad was “terrified”, had a “gash on his head” and “complained of pain in his ribs”, when he was found by reporters in a forest near a motorway exit to Emmaboda on Tuesday evening. In a video of the interview, Mr Ahad appears to have blood dripping from the top of his head. Mr Ahad says he is not a resident at the hotel and had been invited to the centre for coffee. He has captured a recording of the entire confrontation. On Wednesday, police said they has opened a criminal investigation against the officer who made the racial statement, according to Swedish national broadcaster Sveriges Radio. The officer, who remains unnamed, is reportedly suspected of unlawful threats, insults and assault. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/police-tell-man-go-home-you-arab-b-in-racial-abuse-caught-on-tape-a7004321.html Archive http://archive.is/rR132 CAPITALIST PRESS CAPITALIST PAYROLL JOURNALISTS ARE THE CLASS ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

Trotskyism

Trotskyism -- Marxist ideology -- theory of permanent revolution -- theory of Leon Trotsky d. 1940 -- Bolshevik Party leader, Russian Revolution -- theory that (historically) economic system had to be seen -- as world system rather than national system -- all national economic development (according to Trotsky) -- affected by laws of world market -- and through regional factors & pressures from surrounding countries -- in Trotsky view, Russian Revolution, to be successful -- needs revolutions in other countries, esp. Western Europe -- emphasis of hegemony of working class over revolutionary class -- due to position in industry & advanced sectors of economy Counterposed to Trotsky's ideas of permanent revolution -- equals:  socialism in one country national self-sufficiency & self-centredness -- by 1920s Soviet Union Communist Party overly bureaucratised -- 1924:  Trotsky attack on bureaucracy of Bolshevik Old Guard -- called for more democracy within and beyond Communist Party -- opposed the conception of a monolithic party -- 1929:  Stalin exiles Trotsky -- Trotskyists increase attack on Soviet bureaucracy (dictatorship of one) -- claim of 'degenerated workers' state': --  means of production nationalised -- but bureaucratic regime rules -- 1930s:  looks like they kissed & made up in the 30s to fight rise of fascism -- 1940:  Trotsky ice-picked in Mexico, reportedly by Stalin's agent -- Trotskyism: loose generic term for extreme revolutionary doctrines -- united only by opposition to the bourgeois http://www.britannica.com/topic/Trotskyism otherwise described as: communism - a political theory favouring collectivism in a classless society http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Trotskyism COMMENT Well, it doesn't look like Trotskyism is for me. I'm built more along Stalin lines.  But I'm not really into any kind of collectivism, so revolution is out for me. The 'permanent revolution' and world economic system viewpoint sounds a lot like capitalism, in that capitalism is permanently at war, either trying to spread capitalism or trying to prevent other nations choosing their own way of life, while aiming to control as much in world trade as the capitalists can control.

Boer Wars

history Boer Wars Boers Dutch/German for 'farmer' Great Britain wins Napoleonic Wars Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) Napoleon Bonaparte France vs. Europe Battles extensive ... no time to read http://www.britannica.com/event/Napoleonic-Wars "Britain’s ultimate success against Napoleon, like its importance in this period as a whole, owed much to its wealth—its capacity to raise loans through its financial machinery and revenue through the prosperity of its inhabitants and the extent of its trade. But British success also owed much to the power of its navy and to the energy and aggressiveness of its ruling class, which was particularly apparent in the imperial expansion of this period." "Every major war Britain engaged in during this period increased its colonial power. The Seven Years’ War was particularly successful in this respect, and so were the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1793 and 1815 Britain gained 20 colonies ..." "By 1820 the total population of the territories it governed was 200 million, 26 percent of the world’s total population. Not all of these acquisitions were formally directed by London. Captain James Cook’s explorations of Australia and New Zealand after 1770 were in part an exercise in private enterprise and scientific inquiry. Nonetheless, British settlement of Australia at New South Wales began in 1787, in part because the mother country needed another repository for transported convicts previously sent to the North American colonies. The East India Company also retained considerable initiative in its military strategies. In 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles seized Singapore for the company and not on London’s instructions. But, however acquired, all these acquisitions added to Britain’s power and reputation. It was no accident, perhaps, that its two national anthems, “God Save the King” and “Rule Britannia,” were composed in this period. For the privileged and the rich, this was preeminently an era of confidence and arrogance." Linda J. Colley http://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/William-Pitt-the-Younger#ref483378 1814: Britain gains ceded Dutch South African territory - Cape Colony -- over 160 years of Dutch influence in South Africa comes to end -- by this time, colonists:     -- Dutch     -- German     -- French -- had evolved to distinct people:  Boers or Afrikaners -- Boers (Dutch/German - 'farmer') -- spoke Taal - 17th Century Dutch -- Taal later became known as 'Afrikaans' -- Boers:  hardy farmers & cattle herders -- independent, resented govt interference -- particular issues re:  Hottentots -- Boers migrated further away from reach of authority before the British -- Boers came into close proximity with Bantu -- near continuous conflict over territory & grazing rights -- British intro policies concerning black populations -- Boers operated under concept that slavery is personal affair -- Boers resented policy that interfered with their affairs -- troubles began when British govt tried to abolish slavery -- & when British govt ordered emancipation of slaves in Cape Colony 1834 -- compensation was to be paid, but what was promised did not materialise -- many slave-owning farmers ruined -- Boers decided to move again, far from British -- mass migration referred to by Boers as the 'Great Trek' -- Boers declare several small republics 1838 -- between Orange & Vaal Rivers -- among those:  Transvaal -- came into conflict with:  Zulu -- conflicts began -- 1854:  Boers independence from British -- with establishment of:  ORANGE FREE STATE -- next 30 years quiet -- 1880:  British influence intolerable -- diamonds & gold discovered in various parts -- led to British annexing of parts of region, 1867 -- despite Boer vehement protests -- problems of the time for Boers:     -- free spirited lifestyle     -- refusal to pay taxes     -- infighting among leaders     -- political anarchy & emasculation of govt     -- tribes amassing on borders for invasion:         -- Bapedi tribe         -- Zulu tribe -- 1877: Britain annexed the Transvaal -- 1879:  Boer open defiance of British authority -- British build fortified garrisons across country to control Boer uprising -- 1880:  Boer attempts to peacefully regain independent status blocked -- Boers proclaimed republic in Transvaal -- Boers attacked British troops who refused to evacuate newly declared republic -- Boer leadership:  SJ Paul Kruger & Petrus (Piet) Jacobus Joubert -- mustered ad hoc force of 7,000 to drive out British -- Dec. 1880 Boer militia ambushes British column on way from -- garrison at Lydenburg to capital:  Pretoria -- Boer Wars ensue http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/military-history/the-start-of-the-boer-wars/ COMMENT The info about the British ascendency during period of various European wars was really interesting.  It looks like this is where the British gain most of their colonies. The list of Napoleonic battles looks really interesting.  Something to check out, when I get around to it during my travels.

Panama Papers PsyOp & No-Balls Ruling Oligarchy-Sponsored Propaganda 'Journalism'

[CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE]   re:  article below Let's see, sheeple ... Massive (purported) data dump WITHHELD from public by: 1. controlled, ruling oligarch-sponsored, corporate media & its 'brave', 'righteous' ruling oligarch-sponsored 'journalists' AND 2. ruling oligarch-sponsored NGOs (non-government organisations); AND 3. the ruling oligarch sponsored, trained and NGO taskforce assembled  -- ehem -- 'journalists'... Under the 'brave' umbrella of: such ruling oligarch-sponsored NGOs; and ruling oligarch-sponsored media; JUSTIFY WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM the oppressed public BY citing rhetoric involving: noble journalistic credo; and 'priestly' journalistic protections; PRESENTED to the masses as shining examples of what the ruling oligarch-controlled media likes to portray as 'responsible journalism' ... WHILE RECIPIENTS OF RULING OLIGARCH MUNIFICENCE ARE WITHHOLDING WHAT *PURPORTS* TO BE A MASSIVE & UNPRECEDENTED DATA DUMP THAT IS IN PUBLIC INTEREST TO RELEASE Sound familiar? Negotiated with what is: DATA DUMPER specially-chosen German corporate journalist IN WHAT IS US-ANGLO RULING CAPITALIST EMPIRE OCCUPATION SINCE-WWII DEFEAT of  GERMANY Denied sovereignty, tightly controlled & indoctrinated Germany. Negotiated with what is: CORPORATE JOURNALISM'S SILENT, withholding 'messenger' AND an  anonymous but chatty GOD OF A 'WHISTLEBLOWER' DATA DUMP THAT  we are expected to believe has colluded with class-enemy corporate media, to handball whistleblower data on the basis  ... THAT THE DATA SHALL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY source:  http://giphy.com GOING TO UNPRECEDENTED data hoovering & transfer efforts ...  to ... errrrrrrrrrrr, keep the data under wraps Yeah, right. All that effort expended on keeping data under wraps supposedly chosen over making logical whistleblower choice eg. proven whistleblower publishing organisation WikiLeaks ... with CREDIBILITY, EXPERIENCE, PROVEN TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ... and balls of steel Oh, sure. source:  http://giphy.com AND the: (i) ruling oligarch-sponsored MEDIA; (ii) ruling oligarch-sponsored NGOs; and (iii) ruling oligarch-sponsored 'journalists': 'BRAVELY' INTEND to: 1. WITHHOLD information from THE OPPRESSED PUBLIC, to whom this information RIGHTFULLY belongs (as information rightfully ought to be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN and not withheld from public access by middle-men who appoint themselves masters of the information the public is not permitted to see, once information is released to these middle-men on whistleblower basis); 2. WITHHOLD information from the authorities that may wish to prosecute tax dodging ruling oligarchs (and lesser-thieves of revenue resources from the OPPRESSED PUBLIC) ... The masses are expected to believe THE UNPRECEDENTED DATA HOOVER & TRANSFER OF DATA WHISTLEBLOWER GOD INTENDED and/or overlooked the following: A. THAT a vast trove of data would be withheld from the public, while the servants of the ruling oligarchy would be encouraged to cherry-pick ruling oligarch agenda serving snippets to strategically feed to the masses AND B. INDICATION the corporate media is: 1. PROPAGANDA MEDIA and an instrument of OPPRESSION of the people; 2. THAT corporate journalists, in general, are ruling oligarchy scribes and therefore CLASS ENEMIES of the OPPRESSED, INFORMATION-DENIED, CONSISTENTLY MISLED & INDOCTRINATED PEOPLE; 3. THAT  the ruling oligarch owned propaganda media has a LONG HISTORY of WITHHOLDING INFORMATION from the public & therefore DENYING THE PUBLIC INFORMED CONSENT; AND INDICATION that: 4. the ruling oligarch owned propaganda media has a LONG HISTORY of COOPERATING with the CORRUPT, OPPRESSIVE STATE and with law enforcement (a state that is puppet of the ruling oligarchy, that happens to own the corporate media as well as the government). Meanwhile, these same ruling oligarch-sponsored propaganda scribes that are effectively protecting the tax haven shelter scamming ruling oligarchy sponsors of media platforms and 'journalists' who are class enemies of the people, would have us believe they are: (1) acting in 'noble' public interests: (i) by placing what purports to be the 'protection' of loss of individual small-fry 'privacy' above the substantial counter-weight of: (a) public right to what *is* rightfully public domain information once released from originator as whistleblower material; & (b) the public right to justice and freedom from being further ripped off by the exploiting ruling oligarchy. (ii) by withholding a large data cache due to its size (which is in fact REASON TO RELEASE THE DATA CACHE as a public searchable repository); (Oooooooooh, how 'noble' of the ruling oligarch-sponsored information mediating & gate-keeping priesthood, considering the ENORMITY of the PURPORTED unprecedented data dump & its significance to the information-disenfranchised public) Bear in mind that the oligarch controlled corporate media, generally, thinks nothing of violating the privacy of European nationalists, to the social, economic and other detriment of such persons exercising the suppressed right to free thinking, free expression, free exchange of information and opinion, and political freedom. (2) acting in whistle-blower interests: Once again, THE SAME PROPAGANDA SCRIBES of the ruling establishment WHO PURPORT TO HAVE ACCEPTED A LARGE DATA DUMP have DONE SO KNOWING they would not be able to manage and process this data in the normal 'journalistic' fashion: PERVERSELY RELY UPON  citing various  'justification' pretext rhetoric, including citing  'difficulty' of protecting the 'anonymous source' of the data dump, as: SHIELD  from responsibility to effect public disclosure & SHIELD from accountability for withholding information from the public AND AS: 'justification' for REFUSING TO RELEASE INFORMATION to the oppressed, mislead, & information-disenfranchised public THAT WHISTLE-BLOWING IS GENERALLY INTENDED TO SERVE   ... and the PUBLIC INTEREST presumably INTENDED TO BE SERVED by the DUMPER of the enormous cache of data RATHER than data intended to serve the 'priestly' information-mediating (and distorting) profession that is ruling oligarch owned 'journalism' BUT the intent here is something else It's bullsh*t How many intelligence services are involved in the making of this bullsh*t, I wonder? AND Propaganda scribes shamelessly cite rhetoric employed as a shield: AS IF the this rhetoric (in light of the facts) justifies RIPPING OFF THE PUBLIC by protecting the criminal among the sponsoring ruling oligarchy by (reportedly) ACCEPTING INFORMATION THE CONTROLLED MEDIA IS NOT PREPARED TO RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC  In which case, they do so for lack of: freedom from constraints of ruling oligarch-sponsorship; inclination; know-how; man-power; balls; or technical expertise. These ruling oligarch-sponsored 'journalists' not only have no right to WITHHOLD such information, but judging by their track record with what are withheld purported leaks: corporate 'journalists' have NO MORAL RIGHT TO ACCEPT WHISTLE-BLOWER INFORMATION  ON GATE-KEEPING, SILENCE & WITHHOLDING BASIS THAT IS THE TRACK RECORD OF SUCH ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION ought rightfully be channelled to the public domain. What a pathetic WANK this.   It SCREAMS:  'PSYOP!' DECEPTION IS THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RULING OLIGARCH-OWNED CORPORATE MEDIA PsyOp Summary: SOURCE http://www.dw.com/en/from-germany-to-the-us-authorities-want-access-to-panama-papers/a-19209191 Panama Toilet Papers -- German federal states call for media outlets to release 11.5 million documents -- "  " for increased measures against tax havens -- "  " for media outlets to give prosecutors access to documents Süddeutsche Zeitung's (SZ) newspaper -- journalists behind largest data leak in history refuse to:     -- give authorities access to the documents; or     -- publish documents online; DESPITE calls to do so by both: -- government officials; and -- representatives of whistle-blower organisation, WikiLeaks. -- journalist  Bastian Obermayer, first contact of 'anonymous source':   -- PERVERSELY using 'PROTECTION OF SOURCE'  -- as pretext to WITHHOLD information -- from the public domain -- PERVERSELY relying on -- protecting the anonymity of the public rhetoric -- in order to WITHHOLD what is rightfully PUBLIC INFORMATION US attorney for Manhattan Preet Bharara -- according to the establishment scribes, The Guardian, sends letter to: -- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) -- indicating US Dept. of Justice has opened criminal investigation -- & seeking access to data However, ICIJ Director Gerard Ryle: -- refuses to release unpublished data to:     -- the Department of Justice     -- other US govt entities     -- or the PUBLIC, to whom this information rightfully belongs -- perversely using 'focus on journalism' as  SHIELD -- while denying the public INFORMATION -- IN ADDITION -- PERVERSELY PROTECTING OFFSHORE MONEY-STASHING RULING OLIGARCHY -- re  ICIJ & its parent organisation - 'Center for Public Integrity' -- citing media organisation shielding by First Amendment -- from being an ARM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT -- minor sacrificial 'victim' of American PsyOp, Dave Bacon-Lover Cameron -- CALLS ON RELEASE OF INFORMATION with tax inspectors SOURCE http://www.dw.com/en/from-germany-to-the-us-authorities-want-access-to-panama-papers/a-19209191 COMMENT: The information should be made available to everybody & not just law enforcement, which was refused.  Refused information, along with the public.  Denial of information to the public is as ridiculous as it gets.  What an entitled, arrogant bunch of capitalist serving bastards. VIVA LAS VEGAS

US Gangster State Kidnappers & Swedish Lying Rape-Sponsoring State

US Gangster State Kidnappers & Swedish Lying Rape-Sponsoring State SOURCE https://www.rt.com/politics/338760-us-violates-international-treaties-interpol/ US flouts international law & Interpol protocols, says father of abducted Russian suspect Published time: 7 Apr, 2016 10:25 Russian MP Valery Selesnyov has said that the detention of his son by US special services violated not only the extradition agreement between Moscow and Washington but also the basic rules of Interpol. “The United States have considerably devalued international institutions. Americans insist that they have some exclusive right to put their domestic laws over the international ones. And they ignore organizations like Interpol,” Seleznyov said in an interview with Izvestia daily. “The grounds for my son’s detention have been presented as Interpol’s Red Notice, but the Russian branch of this organization knew nothing about any Red Notice issued on a Russian citizen’s name and therefore they simply ignored us as members of this international organization,” he added. READ MORE: Russia’s Foreign Ministry urges US ‘to stop harassing kidnapped Russian MP’s son’ The lawmaker said that the US prosecution had started to use tactics aimed at exhausting the suspect and decided to press additional charges in order to postpone the date of verdict, currently scheduled for May 9. “The prosecutors have understood that the whole array of charges presented by them would obviously be destroyed by the defense’s arguments. They decided to collect some additional data and it will require more time to study it, which means that the court session will be postponed yet another time. This is the US Justice’s objective – they use the exhaustion tactics. My son has already spent two years in pre-trial custody and any man can get desperate when his future is uncertain,” Seleznyov told reporters. He added that it was difficult to foresee what the sentence could be because the whole process is extremely politicized. Valery Selesnyov’s son Roman was detained in July 2014 in the Maldives and immediately transported to the US territory of Guam, where he was officially charged on over 40 counts including identity theft, bank fraud, illegally accessing information on protected computers, and trafficking in unauthorized access devices. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison. The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement calling the operation to detain Roman Seleznyov and take him to the US soil “a literal kidnapping and flagrant violation of the laws of any civilized state as well as international law.” READ MORE: ‘US hunts for Russians’: Moscow warns citizens traveling abroad Russian diplomats pointed out that Roman Seleznyov was seriously injured in a terrorist attack in Morocco in 2011 and the conditions that he was being kept in did not allow for proper medical treatment. The Russian side warned that as a result his health and even his life are in danger. The ministry noted that Seleznyov’s abduction was very similar to the cases of Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were also forced to go to the US from third countries and convicted on dubious charges. SOURCE https://www.rt.com/politics/338760-us-violates-international-treaties-interpol/ COMMENT With a track record of arrogantly and illegally extending American domestic law to foreign soil; With a track record of kidnapping foreigners to prosecute in domestic jurisdiction; the United Snakes has most likely planned a Julian Assange, journalist, abduction from Sweden (or maybe even the UK). That explains why this farce of state political persecution of a journalist (who exposed American and allied criminality) is being carried out in the United Kingdom (at enormous public cost), spanning over 5 years now:  While Sweden has done everything it can to avoid even interviewing Assange over dodgy-as dodgy Swedish police 'allegations' (on the advice of British state lawyers). [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Wake up.  This is the same Swedish state that facilitates brutal rapes of Swedish women by virtue policy, irrespective of the social costs. AND the same Swedish police that have COVERED UP MASS SEX ASSAULTS OF YOUNG SWEDISH GIRLS AND WOMEN BY FOREIGNERS. Welcome to Sweden FEMINIST SWEDEN [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE]        [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE]

European Council of Oligarch Rights - Yukos

European Council of Oligarch Rights - Yukos https://www.rt.com/business/215155-russia-accepts-court-verdict/ Russia ‘forced to accept’ €1.86bn compensation for former shareholders of oil giant Published time: 17 Dec, 2014 13:02 Russia has agreed to pay €1.86 billion in compensation to former Yukos shareholders after the European "The judges have made the decision. We are forced to accept it. We believe it is unreasonable, but there’s nothing we can do," said Konovalov as quoted by RIA. At the same time he said Russia is not obliged to abide by the decisions of the ECHR, adding that the enforcement of decisions is ‘goodwill’ on the part of a member country of the Council of Europe. "Life will show to what extent this decision will be enforced in Russia," he said. On Tuesday the ECHR ruled against the Ministry of Justice appeal to overturn the July 2014 decision. The court then ordered Russia to pay the compensation. Russia must now pay €1.86 billion (US$2.51 billion) to the former shareholders of Russia's once largest private oil company for unfair tax proceedings, which allegedly led to the liquidation of Yukos in 2007. The compensation sum was calculated on the basis of fines imposed on Yukos by the Ministry of Taxes and Assessments in 2000 and 2001 following a tax audit. A part of the seven percent execution fee levied against the company was included as well. Another ruling by the International Arbitration Court in the Netherlands has ended a decade long case brought by former Yukos shareholders which ordered Russia to pay about $50 billion in damages. The Yukos oil company existed from 1993 to 2007. In August 2006 it was declared bankrupt at the request of a syndicate of foreign banks to which Yukos owed about $500 million. Later this debt was purchased by Rosneft. In 2007 the company's property was sold at auction to cover its debts. Yukos was dissolved on November 21, 2007. https://www.rt.com/business/215155-russia-accepts-court-verdict/ Council of Europe f. May 1949 founding states: Britain Ireland France Italy Luxemburg Netherlands Belgium Denmark Norway Sweden Greece & Turkey join 10 months later Iceland & Germany the following year currently 47 member states European Convention on Human Rights drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe entered into force on 3 September 1953 -- international treaty -- fundamental rights & freedoms -- compensations imposed under ECHR large -- Russia to pay excess of $2 billion in damages to shareholders of Yukos   all European states currently members council *except states not recognised *except Belarus, Vatican & Kazakhstan observer states: USA & Japan -- criticised b/c both apply death penalty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Council_of_Europe COMMENT From what I've read, it's the Russians that need to be compensated. Russia became a member state of the Council of Europe in 1996, but as the Council has no enforcement capacity, Russia ought to tell the Council to get stuffed. Council membership is overrated, especially when you're being economically sanctioned by all these a$$holes.

Planet Tokyo

Death Masks music: Lee Rosevere 'Red Danube' source COMMENT I made this!  ... Sort of. Images are from all over. Music is the above guy's.   Really like the sound of that. Sort of half-assed job putting things together.  Just playing with things to see how they'd turn out.  And all I've done is put music to image in the video maker thingy (after assembling pics elsewhere). So all I really managed to do here is move things and cut the audio where I wanted it cut. *PS  ... I don't have plug-in to see if this video has loaded properly.  Hoping it is.  LOL Think this needs an edit.  It's too still.